Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on cooperation and colleges of supervisors for third country-branches. These standards are designed to enhance collaboration and information exchange among competent authorities supervising third-country branches in the EU. They also set out practical arrangements for organising colleges of supervisors, ensuring comprehensive supervision of all activities conducted by third-country groups within the Union.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - the ESAs) published today their Joint Guidelines on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) stress testing. These Guidelines provide national insurance and banking supervisors with clear guidance on how to integrate ESG risks into supervisory stress tests, both when using established frameworks and when conducting complementary assessments of ESG risk impacts.

The Joint Board of Appeal (“The Board”) of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – the EBA, ESMA, EIOPA – has issued its decision on costs arising in the appeal brought by NOVIS Insurance Company, NOVIS Versicherungsgesellschaft, NOVIS Compagnia di Assicurazioni, and NOVIS Poisťovňa a.s. (“NOVIS”) against the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has updated its Guidelines on the equivalence of confidentiality and professional secrecy regimes in third countries, reinforcing the EU’s commitment to safeguarding confidential information and enabling effective cross border supervisory cooperation.

The European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), national central banks and national supervisory authorities across the European Economic Area have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation and information sharing in support of non-bank payment service providers’ (PSPs) access to central bank-operated payment systems.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has updated its confidential Report on equivalence monitoring activities and submitted it to European Parliament, the Council, the European Commission and the other European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). To enhance transparency, the EBA also published a public summary outlining recent regulatory and supervisory developments in 26 non-EU jurisdictions deemed equivalent under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its Q3 2025 Risk Dashboard (RDB), for the first time within EDAP, the European Data Access Portal. The data confirm that asset quality, solvency, liquidity and profitability in the banking sector of the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) remain stable, even amid heightened macroeconomic and geopolitical risks.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published clear guidance for banks on how to manage enhanced reporting requirements for operational risk, following the postponement of the first reference date under the amended Implementing Technical Standards (ITS). This move comes after the European Commission adopted Regulation (EU) 2025/2475, which delays the application of new operational risk reporting obligations to the end of June 2026.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) establishing the threshold up to which- non-banking CSDs (“designating CSDs”) may use banking CSDs or credit institutions for cash settlement without entities needing additional authorisation.

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published two factsheets designed to help consumers protect themselves from crypto and other online frauds and scams and explain how fraudsters increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to deceive consumers. To make the information easily accessible, the factsheets will be translated into all official EU languages and reproduced by national authorities.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) today published the 2025 edition of their joint report on payment fraud. The report covers the semi-annual data for 2022 to 2024 and confirms that the legal requirement for strong customer authentication (SCA) introduced in 2020 has contributed to reducing fraud levels. However, it also highlights the need for continued vigilance and for security measures to be adapted to combat new emerging types of fraud.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on structural foreign exchange (FX) under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). These standards deliver greater clarity, consistency, and supervisory convergence in the application of structural FX provisions across the EU. The final RTS retain the overall approach of the existing EBA Guidelines, while introducing targeted enhancements to ensure a more harmonised and transparent framework.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today a revised list of validation rules under its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting. This update highlights rules that have been deactivated due to inaccuracies or IT-related issues. Competent Authorities across the EU are reminded that data submitted according to these ITS should not be formally validated against the deactivated rules.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft amending Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the types of factors to be considered by national authorities in assessing the appropriateness of real estate risk weights. This review is driven by the revised Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR 3), which confers a new mandate onto the EBA regarding the Standardised Approach of credit risk.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) concerning material acquisitions, material transfers of assets or liabilities, and mergers and divisions involving credit institutions or (mixed) financial holding companies under the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). The standards are designed to support banking consolidation and deepen EU market integration by clarifying supervisory expectations, reducing regulatory uncertainty and ensuring consistent prudential assessment across the EU. The consultation runs until 5 March 2026.